In Conversation: Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901 Book Launch
Book launch
The Australians who formed a nation in 1901 believed that the native people from whom they had seized the continent would eventually die out or be absorbed seamlessly into the wider population.Now, in the early twenty-first century, a growing population of Indigenous Australians demands to be…
Thesis Proposal Review Presentation Day
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Abstracts Children of the wattle: Children’s play in Australia during the early-twentieth centuryEmily GallagherThis thesis is a study of children’s play in Australia in the early-twentieth century. Prioritising the child’s view of the world, it examines traditions of doll, street and…
Related Histories: Studying the Family
Conference
In 2015 Graeme Davison observed that family history had emerged from the world of the ‘private hobby’ and, taking on new understandings of genealogy, memory and history, become a new ‘shared civic endeavour.’ Everywhere we see evidence of a remarkable upsurge of interest in family history as…
Aboriginal History Journal - Celebrating 40 years
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Join past, present and future contributors, readers, friends and editors of Aboriginal History journal to celebrate 40 years of publication. Speakers include John Maynard, Shino Konishi, Frances Peters-Little, Lyndall Ryan, Jeremy Beckett, Peter Read, Emma Dortins and others.
Aboriginal History Journal: 40 years of publication
Conference
Join past, present and future contributors, readers, friends and editors of Aboriginal History journal to celebrate 40 years of publication. Speakers include John Maynard, Shino Konishi, Frances Peters-Little, Lyndall Ryan, Jeremy Beckett, Peter Read, Emma Dortins and others.
Karen Fox: Fame, Reputation, Significance, and Biography
Workshop
Reputations – and historians’ assessments of the significance of a life – may change over time, and can be the subject of intense conflict, as demonstrated by a range of recent controversies around the world over statues, portraits, and other modes of memorialisation. In this Biography Workshop…
Indigenous Lives and the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Lecture
It has been more that 50 years since the first volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) was published. Over that time the ADB has consolidated its reputation as the pre-eminent repository of Australia’s story. It charts the lives of more than 12,000 individuals who lived during the…